I'm turning 19 in a couple of weeks and I got into 1.0 when I turned 16 or something. I super-admired this role-play community at the time (and still talk about it fondly!) due to it being close-knit, yet big-ish, and so helpful and friendly! A really fun community to be a part of. I'm shy though... even though your anonymous on the internet. So even when I play MMOs I'm generally a silent-player. Hope to be more talkative this time around!
I've been role-playing since I was ten or so, though probably butchered the art. It was in habbo hotel (lawls) and I played with other dorky teens that we were Final Fantasy characters - I was Yuna. Got really fast at typing from our real-time text-battles and tragic conflicts. Then we moved onto a forum on piczo where we created a world, antagonists... It was pretty neat. Nerdy and lame, but that's the neatest. And it's been 9 years and I still have contact with most of them! I guess I used to take acting lessons when I was little: played out stuff from Through the Looking Glass and what-not but my charisma since then has... flopped. Pretended to be an elven princess growing up with horse-bicycles and [wooden] swords/bows? Faeries have, and always will be, a thing.
At 11 I really wanted FFXI among other MMOs but... can't afford much on an 11-year-old's allowance. Then my brother got WoW (which I had a super prejudice against until playing) and that's how I discovered role-playing in these sorts of games! I've played Aion, Tera and Guild Wars 2 since then and love text-based RP. Still gotta get around to the table-top stuff - my friends are trying to get me into DMing to make the fantasy possible.
Fun fact, I lost contact with a role-play companion from World of Warcraft (years ago) and rediscovered him in Guild Wars 2 in October. We're just as chummy as we once were (small world, ain't it?), and I'm bummed he's not going to try out FFXIV!
I've been role-playing since I was ten or so, though probably butchered the art. It was in habbo hotel (lawls) and I played with other dorky teens that we were Final Fantasy characters - I was Yuna. Got really fast at typing from our real-time text-battles and tragic conflicts. Then we moved onto a forum on piczo where we created a world, antagonists... It was pretty neat. Nerdy and lame, but that's the neatest. And it's been 9 years and I still have contact with most of them! I guess I used to take acting lessons when I was little: played out stuff from Through the Looking Glass and what-not but my charisma since then has... flopped. Pretended to be an elven princess growing up with horse-bicycles and [wooden] swords/bows? Faeries have, and always will be, a thing.
At 11 I really wanted FFXI among other MMOs but... can't afford much on an 11-year-old's allowance. Then my brother got WoW (which I had a super prejudice against until playing) and that's how I discovered role-playing in these sorts of games! I've played Aion, Tera and Guild Wars 2 since then and love text-based RP. Still gotta get around to the table-top stuff - my friends are trying to get me into DMing to make the fantasy possible.
Fun fact, I lost contact with a role-play companion from World of Warcraft (years ago) and rediscovered him in Guild Wars 2 in October. We're just as chummy as we once were (small world, ain't it?), and I'm bummed he's not going to try out FFXIV!